Optimal foraging: Lévy pattern or process?

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 5, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 1077-1086

  Plank, M J ^a   James, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Brownian random walk; Foraging behaviour; Foraging efficiency; L vy random walk; Power law; Stochastic differential equation

Indexed keywords

FOOD PRESERVATION;

HEAVY TAILED; MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSIONS; NON DESTRUCTIVE; OBSERVED DATA; OPTIMAL TIME; SEARCH MODELS; TIME INTERVALS;

CANNING;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORAGING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PRODUCTIVITY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 47649086100     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0006     Document Type: Article

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